Checker



CHECKER.

APPLICATION F|Lp 1AN. l4,1921.

Patented Dec. 6, 1921.

HARVEY Il. WINSLOW, UF WAIFRBURY, GUNNEUIICU'I.

IIECKFR.

ipeciication of Letters Patent.

Patented llllec. n, IQRI.

Application filed January lll, 192.1. aerial No. 437,174.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, IrInnvnr Il. Wrnsnow, a citizen of the United States, residing at Waterbury, in the county of N ew I-Iaven and State ont Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Checkers; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the` characters oi reference marked thereon, to he a full, clear, and exact descrip tion of the same, and which said drawings constitute part oi this application, and represent, in

Figure l a top or plan view ot a checker constructed in accordance with my invention.

Fig. 2 a side view partly in section of the same.

Fig. 3 a sectional. view on line 3-*3 of Fig. l.

Fig. 4 a plan view illustrating the manner or releasing the crowning member.

Fig. 5 a vertical sectional view of the checker with the crowning member raised.

Fig. 6 a plan view oil. a. modified if'orm oit' my invention.

Fig. 7 a sectional view on line 7--7 of Fig. 6.

'Ihis invention relates to an improvement in checkers, and particularly to that class which are formed in two parts, so that they are in a sense seit-crowning.

rIhe object of this invention is the simple arrangement of parts, whereby the crowning member may be mounted in the base member and released therefrom as occasion requires, and the invention consists in construction and arrangement of parts as hereinai'ter described and particularly recited in the claim.

In carrying out my invention as herein shown, I employ a base member l0, struck up from sheet metal of cup-shape, with a short inwardly-extending flange ll around its upper edge; the base members also formed on opposite sides with inwardly-etending points l2, formed by striking the metal inward. The crowning member 18 is also struck up from sheet metal of cupshape, and is set in an inverted position into the base member. rI`his crowning member is formed in its edge with an outwardly projecting flange 1'8, whereby is is `held against escaping` from the base member, and which flange may also engage with the points l2 to hold it in its depressed position.

Between the members is a coil-spring 14. 'Ihe base member is preferably made verv slightly oval. In its normal position the crowning member is depressed into the base member in which it is held by the engagement of the flange i3 with the points When, however', it is desired to crown the man, opposite sides oi the base member will be pressed together by the thumb and nger of the player, which will spring the points l2 outward, so that the Iiange i3 may pass the points, under the action ot the spring lt, to be elevated to a plane above the plane or the base member, as shown in Fig. 5 of the drawings.

Instead o" employing the points l2 to hold the crowning member in its depressed position, the closed end of the crowning member may be slightly beveled as at l5 and as shown in Fig. 6 or the drawings, for engagement by the flange i6 of the base member. In this case the base member will be decidredly oval, so that when the sides oi its longest diameter are pressed the sides of the shorter diameter will release the crowning member and allow it to spring outward in the same manner as before described.

In either construction or my device, both members oit' the checker are readily struck up from sheet metal, and both are adapted by slight pressure on opposite sides to release the crowning member, which springs upward when necessary. l

I claim:

A checker comprising a base member and a crowning member, both 'formed from cupshaped pieces of metal, and both iormed at their open ends with lianges, the crowning member being inverted and extending into the base member, the base member being larger in diameter than the diameter oli' the crowning member, means adapted to hold the crowning member in its depressed position, a spring between the two members, and the base member adapted to be compressed on opposite sides, whereby the crowning member is released.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence oi.' two subscribing witnesses.

HARVEY Ir. IVINSIIVV. Witnesses:

ANNA F. Fnrsnveen, GLADrs E. Renners. 

